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How to Create a Filterable Portfolio in WordPress

Last updated on June 26th, 2017 by Editorial Staff
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How to Create a Filterable Portfolio in WordPress

Do you want to add a filterable portfolio in WordPress? A filterable portfolio allows users to sort items in your portfolio based on tags. This helps you showcase different styles of your work, and your users can discover items that interest them. In this article, we will show you how to easily create a filterable portfolio in WordPress.

How to create a filterable portfolio in WordPress

Why Create a Filterable Portfolio in WordPress?

Normally, most photographers and designers just create a beautiful portfolio showing their best photographs. However sometimes those looking to hire you may want to see if you have done something similar before.

For example, someone looking for a fashion photographer may want to see your work in fashion.

Example of a filterable portfolio gallery

Adding filters to your portfolio allows you to show your work under different tags. It also helps your users to easily sort items in your portfolio.

Having said that, let’s take a look at how to easily create a filterable portfolio in WordPress without writing any code.

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Creating a Filterable Portfolio in WordPress

First, you will need to install and activate the Envira Gallery plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Envira Gallery is one of our premium WordPress plugin, and you will need at least the silver plan to access the tags addon.

Upon activation, you need to visit Envira Gallery » Settings page to enter your license key. You can get this information from your account on Envira Gallery website.

Add Envira Gallery license key

Next, you need to install the tags addon. Head over to Envira Gallery » Addons page and locate the tags addon.

Installing tags addon

Click on the install button and Envira Gallery will fetch and install the addon for you. You will still need to click on the Activate button to start using the addon.

Activate addon

Now you are ready to create your filterable portfolio.

Head over to Envira Gallery » Add New page to create your first gallery.

Upload your photographs

Click on ‘Select files from your computer’ button to upload your photos. You can also click on ‘Select files from other sources’ button to select files from WordPress media library.

Envira will now upload and insert files into your gallery. Once it’s done, you can scroll down to see your images.

Edit an image in your gallery

Now you need to click on the pencil icon to edit an image. This will bring up a popup where you can add the tags and other metadata to your photos.

Add tags to your photos

Enter the tags you want to assign to this photo. You can add multiple tags separated by comma.

Once done, click on the save metadata button to store your tags.

Now you need to repeat the process to add tags to all images in your gallery.

After adding tags to your photos click on the tags tab on the left. This is where you can enable or disable tag-filtering for your gallery.

Enable filtering for your gallery

You need to check the box to enable tag filtering, and you will be able to see settings for this option.

You can show tags above or below the gallery, show all tags or select tags to show, and configure other display settings.

Once you are done, click on the publish button to make your gallery live.

Your portfolio gallery is now ready to be added to your site.

You can now create a post or page where you want to display your filterable portfolio. On the post editor screen, click on the ‘Add Gallery’ button.

Insert gallery into WordPress posts and pages

This will bring up a popup where you can select the gallery you just created and insert it into your WordPress post and page.

You can now update your post or page to save your changes and preview your website to see your filterable portfolio in action.

Preview of a filterable portfolio gallery

We hope this article helped you add filterable portfolio in WordPress. You may also want to see our WordPress tutorials such as how to speed up WordPress by saving images optimized for the web.

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  1. Haim says:
    Nov 5, 2017 at 12:07 pm

    All the photo galleries I found so far that support Tags allow filtering one tag at a time. I’d like to implement gallery where I can filter based on multiple tags to get the photos having ALL the tags. For that the Tag selection should be in a checkbox form to allow checking more than one. Can anyone point me to such solution for WP? Thanks.

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  2. divp says:
    Feb 28, 2017 at 4:06 am

    nice one keep sharing

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  3. Lewis says:
    Feb 23, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    Really awesome article, I loved this theme and soon I will be hiring a web developer to build me a theme like this. Thanks!

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